WHITE- PLUMED SHRIKE. 
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The naked skin surrounding the eyes is formed 
precisely like that of the genus Perspicilla ; its 
outside is scalloped, and it encircles the eyes like 
a pair of spectacles; both this and the feet are 
bright yellow. The inner toe is not much shorter 
than the outer one, but this latter is connected to 
the middle toe at its base, while the other is free. 
Total length, 9 inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 T \> ; 
wings, 5 (extending to near the middle of the 
tail) ; tail, from the base, 4} ; tarsus, 1 ; hinefttoe 
and claw, ; inner ditto, -{'a j middle ditto, ^ 8 S . 
WHITE-BODIED CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 
Cdilepyris pectoralis, Swains. 
Above cinereous ; beneath, from the breast, pure white ; 
female with the chin white and the breast paler. 
Graucalus pectoralis, JarJine Selby, III. of Orn. pi. 57. 
The Ceblepyrinte, or Caterpillar Catchers, constitute 
the most aberrant* division of the family of Shrikes; 
they are entirely confined to the warm latitudes of 
the old world and of the Australian range. The 
birds to which they are analogous, in Europe, are 
the Orioles; both seek their food in the thick foliage 
of lofty trees, and both have the same general con- 
* That is, the most distant from the type, which is here 
the genus Lanius. 
